Wednesday, September 29, 2010

It's Hard To Get Too Enthusiastic When Faced With Numbers Like These

Milwaukee is now the 4th poorest city in the country. I'm going to thank almost 16 years of Tommy Thompson for that figure. This is the end result of the ReThug idea.
Milwaukee emerged as America's fourth-most impoverished big city in 2009, as the Great Recession rippled across the city and state, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Tuesday.

Milwaukee's poverty rate reached 27%, up from 23.4% in the previous year. Only Detroit (36.4%), Cleveland (35%) and Buffalo (28.8%) had higher poverty rates among cities with populations greater than 250,000. Milwaukee was ranked 11th in 2008.

An estimated 158,245 Milwaukeeans lived in poverty last year. For a family of four with two adults and two children, the poverty threshold was an annual income of $21,954.

What's more, nearly 4 in 10 children in Milwaukee were considered poor, meaning an estimated 62,432 children lived in poverty last year, up from 49,952 in 2008.

Minneapolis & St. Paul didn't do much better. I suppose the TeaBagger Pawlenty can be given the credit for this.
Poverty and joblessness rose sharply in many Twin Cities suburbs last year, according to U.S. census estimates released Tuesday, along with a rise in what advocates call the "new poor'' -- families whose financial stability has crumbled in the economic recession.
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Child poverty in Dakota County more than doubled, to 8.2 percent in 2009,....
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Anoka County saw a 41 percent increase in food assistance cases from January to July this year....

It's happening in America, folks. Disgusting & embarassing. My emphases.


2 comments:

nonheroicvet said...

Ah yes, Tim Pawlenty the counterfeit conservative.

nonheroicvet said...

Just read where both the house and senate Dems have decided to postpone the vote on Bush tax cuts until after the election. Well Mr. Creek, I think we need to consider that maybe some of these clowns deserve losing in recognition of their loserness.